When Beverley Kingston remarked some years ago that the governess remained one of the ‘most elusive figures in the whole of Australian history’, she effectively exposed the gap in our knowledge about the lives of a relatively large body of women who had been employed as teachers in private families and ladies’ schools for the best part of a century. In Australia the experience of women who spent part of their lives, or indeed, a whole lifetime, as a governess has remained obscure. This is not surprising for governesses like most women, or perhaps it should be said, more than most women, were not found in public places but lived out their lives in private places, the home, the nursery, and the schoolroom. (For complete preface open document)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/245211 |
| Date | January 1982 |
| Creators | Jones, Gwenda D. M. |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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